Fall harvest, hay rides, pumpkin picking, and, of course, children asked to make pumpkin 🍪cookies! Do you 🍴cook with your children? 👦🏼Adrian has been my little helper since he was two years old! And since…
Autumn is our favorite season! We love the vibrancy of deciduous trees as foliage changes color from green to golden-yellow to red. We love watching the leaves dance in the air as they gracefully fall…
Food preparation is one of the areas of Practical Life Activities in Montessori education. Lessons in Practical Life teach a child the skills for practically everything in life. Child's quote "Teach me how to do…
I am loving this age: when my children work, play, read, and cook together! Today, Adrian and Julia are making "givech" – my favorite dish, which is a caviar of mixed vegetables (what ever you have…
Today, we finally harvested from our "garden" our first strawberries for which Kids have been so patiently waiting for! There was so much excitement on Adrian's face when he saw within one week the…
What about a cold refreshing smoothie on a hot afternoon? Although, Adrian has been making banana snacks since about 1 year old (here, is a post on preparing his own snack at 14 months),…
My Mom gave us a simple and nutritious recipe on how to make an apple pie (or-шарлотка-из-яблок). First, we needed to slice some apples, so we used our Apple Slicing Activity. This apple slicer is a…
It is Christmas Day – December the 25th, and the children are eager to continue with the Holiday Countdown. For today, besides doing the Christmas sensorial bin activity while watching the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie (a Christmas classic we watch…
Today, Adrian is exactly 14 months old. I have been asking myself: "How young is too young for a child to be involved in the kitchen?" To answer, we have to determine (1) what does the child…
